Abstract
The Anadarko Basin of the southern midcontinent, U.S.A., is the deepest cratonic basin in North America, with an existing in-place sedimentary section of 12–13 km. It has a more complex history than some other interior basins because it is both a cratonic and a foreland basin. It shares a common origin with several North American Paleozoic basins in having formed over a preexisting rift zone. This rift zone — the Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen — was unusual, having been formed athwart the suture between the southern 1.35–1.40 Ga Granite-Rhyolite terrane and the 1.2 Ga Texas era ton. The rift was active in the late Proterozoic-early Cambrian, but may have inherited an earlier Proterozoic grain. The Paleozoic Anadarko Basin was areally similar to present-day Michigan or Illinois, but was segmented and deepened in the Pennsylvanian during the Ouachita collision. It had a poorly recognized Permian phase which perhaps extended into the Mesozoic.
The Anadarko Basin had a clear thermal subsidence phase in the early Paleozoic. The basin was reactivated in the Mississippian, and this reactivation presumably required plate margin interactions in some form. The basin was thrust-loaded in the Pennsylvanian. The Permian subsidence must also relate to 1) plate margin effects not well understood, and 2) compaction and diagenesis of the Pennsylvanian fill.
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Gilbert, M.C. (1992). Speculations on the Origin of the Anadarko Basin. In: Mason, R. (eds) Basement Tectonics 7. Proceedings of the International Conferences on Basement Tectonics, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0833-3_14
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